Telegram-herald., 1887-08-28

Aen 49, rf~teld ths great sna naaasEozs
maa1factarlss now uudef tAs iostsraz
wia<s q eFo1ecrsss ts3e' Pa tonss. hks
sslsxrsph poses. sl1eseh ia al direeIioss
ever tie laad. employing laoasseds s-ss
sos.d ets<fwiss be Idle. fosy el& -
tat Hs ~os2la lave lad aoas ~ tEsss, Lad
tbe5 not besa protected sod foslsFsd -shss
- heavy day toll pul upon thsls pre-
3acss. - - - sb9t The szase Alna q for
ssxe goods eAL snd r4lss tse pgloss Of
syerythink. eCbezp me elsasndiss. . tae
81. ~sat1sis easap labor. hks ths paaPeE
system of Eafope
oar sasueF is. that ~ 'pr3secsins" Amer
icaH a.snuises0fies. Ne have Rot oaly ro5-
tsd millions Of poor people = pay ls~
/ princes generally r.ch 20 start with but
tnzt Ne hase thereby established the worst
nlo1oEolies tAs world has ever heard Of Can
Ne prove snd demonstrate tbs proposition
4 e, % mountains Of arguments. snt ey
losie that should be overwhelming. Who
hare grown into millionslrs IN this country
Way, mis- protected classes $ sheer handful
Of bafons. who have leaped into money kings
by money sKteFted from the masses. Take
0nr pine harons here ia Michigan. They
seized Upon tAe forests Of the State With
: war cry and rush. they have yaadal-like
and prematurely chopped them down, and
sold their lumber on a tarin-innsted mar
kst. Think OF our standing duty Of s. PER
thousand on boards. and the downright
robbery involved ia thus bleeding Of all the
builders in the United States. as against
honorable competition With the Canadas-
cheaper importations from the British
provinces. Is It the thousands OF lAborers
who are building cottasss in Grand Rapids
that need protection" or IS IL Thomas
lsFnant. ID. A. Biodgett and all that ilk-the
pine-princes ana opulent manufacturers who
furnish lumber for the cottages, Would
these gold. kings never have gone into the
siaughtering OF our forests, or would they
oack out of the business now, enly
as they are "iosteTed" aud 'protected" by
an infamous tariff OF two dollars per thou
which is collected from the buying aud
consuming masses.
These men are OF hot house growth. Duty
on pine mas forced them into millionaires,
the same as flowers are prematurely de-
yeloped in a conssrvatory-the blood Of the
people furnishing the fuel. For years
every shingle and clapboard from their
mills has had protective tariff stamped
upon them. as Cain was branded upon the
forehead. They have been "fostered" into
financial princes. and we who have built
houses and cabins have been danced along
along towards the poor-house TO the tune
oftwo dollars per thoussnd-and thatis toe
whole affair liz nutshell.
Is such a tariff Rational policy2 Why,
then. have these nsbobs grown richer and
the people poorer? Who constitute the na-
tion if not the masses that have thus been
robbed? Where is the democracy that will
legislate only ordinary men into palaces and
ohsriots during business boom of ten or
fifteen years.
They say high tariff protects the people:
We say il robs the people, for they (the
consumers pay it through inflated prices,
while the nabobs and the monopolists and
not the goyernmen) pocket, the dollars
This enormous protective tariff oars impor-
tation and its revenue; but allows Ameri-
can prices to be put up anywhere within
the limits Of the duty imposed. And any
cross-eyed delegate even though he halls
from Nasby's "Confedert X Roads, ought
to lie able to bring his refractory optics TO
focus upon the glsring truth of this prop
osi.ion.
Who needs protection on tubs, the Hon.
@. c. Comstock or the washer women of
Michigan? And how about furniture
should II be given to the Ph0nix Company
OF to tens of thousands Of struggling.
ragged, overworked and often half-starved
men and women, who sleep upon the floor
for want OF bedsteadso
The world was made for competition and
not for fsvortism. A naticn, as a man
should stand or fall on his own merits
Fortunes and factories grow fast enough
without Fostering" spring up az
naturally ss forest trees. and the supply
will always be governed By the demand.
Such products as other nations outstrip us
in. lei rs buy Of them, for il is cowsrdly 10
shirk competition. Should sixty millions
of people pay 50 for every SIS suit of
clothes on their backs that a few hundred
mIilionairos may grow into bilionares out
of 100 voolen mills in the United s,aiesg
A Grand Rapids philosopher recently
said before he Farmers Club that he be-
lisved IN monOpoIss because the SlandardOn
Company had pat down the price ofon. He
might ss well said the changes Of the moon
did III God and the dnlieTs caused the
bowels Of the earth to bounlfuIly fow and
belch forth its illuminating grsase. 50 the
price fell. No monopoly could prevent that.
any more than you could dam up Sisgars.
or prevent natural gas and electric light
from chespeBing coal productions.
The Yankees are the giants Of the world.
Ter as dare and compsts With the world. n
sagsr culture does no, pay, why 5uy Of the
West Indies. not eat our own poor stuG. and
make the people pay a tariff - = cents per
pound on it. SO with multitude Of srti-
cles consumed bT tie multitude.
Wealth and mOaopolies should be EareS
rather than protected. The markets Of the
whole world should be thrown ogsa
70 the consuming nssses Of this Re-
public. whersin they nsy sell At ne
hizheH price and buy - fas lowest Ifs
Chinese val IS 70 hs sustained sf0uad this
Government. let il be TO keep ost tAs a.
srcei.ts and paupers offbs cd Norii. ~ho
degrade isbog sEd threaten our very exist
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